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THE MAROON VOL. 79, NO. 14 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2000 MAROON.LOYNO.EDU Students protest former SOA Mary Chauvin Staff writer Almost 40 Loyola students will spend next weekend protesting at the military training camp formerly known as School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Ga. The School of the Americas began in 1946 under the title of Latin American Training Center-Ground Division. It was located at Fort Amador in Panama. It later moved to Fort Gulick in Panama, changed its name to the U.S. Army Caribbean School and began teaching classes in Spanish rather than English. The name changed again in 1963 to the U.S. Army School of the Americas. In 1984. it moved to the U.S. and settled at Fort Benning, Ga. Opponents of the school often list the names and crimes of human rights violators affiliated with the school, such as two of the men affiliated with Archbishop Oscar Romero's assassination in 1980. The SOA also produced more than half of the 26 men involved with the murder of the six Jesuit priests and two women in El Salvador, who are commemorated by the Peace Quad. However, according to SOA's Web site, less than 1 percent of SOA graduates are linked to human rights violations and even fewer have been proven guilty of those violations. In 1990, the Rev. Roy Bourgeois, M.M.. a Maryknoll priest, began a group called the SOA Watch to fight for the closing of the SOA This group sponsors the annual November protest at the school. One of the biggest problems opponents have with the school centers on "torture manuals" used there. The Pentagon released seven school manuals in September 1996 after being pressured to do so by both religious and human rights groups. These manuals were composed in Spanish and later translated to English. They were used at the SOA as supplemental training materials until 1991. According to the School of the Americas Web site, the U.S. Army did not sanction these manuals. Instead, according to the site, a visiting Latin American instructor brought the manuals to the school because he mistakenly believed that the information conformed to the rules and regulations set by the Army. When they were publicly released. The New York Times reported, "Americans can read for themselves some of the noxious lessons the U.S. Army taught thousands of Americans." Two of the manuals are available to read and download on the SOA Watch Web site in English and three others are available in Spanish. The manuals mention interrogation techniques such as hypnotism and the use of drugs to get informants to tell the truth. Because of bad publicity focused on the school. Congress and the Department of Defense attempted to make changes. It passed a bill in May officially closing the U.S. Army School of Americas. However, that same bill opened a Latin American training school named the Defense Institute for Hemispheric Security Cooperation. This new school is located on the site of the old school at Fort Benning. Even proponents of the SOA have said that the name change is superficial and only designed to relieve some of the bad publicity the school has received for the past 10 years. Bourgeois was quoted as saying, "The SOA has a new name but the same shame. ...We will keep coming back |to Fort Benning for the November protests| until we shut down the 'School of the Assassins' — whatever they call it," The school also consented to allow a Board of Visitors to inspect it and make suggestions, mostly to the school's human rights program and instruction. So far, the board has not asked for any changes. However, The Rev. Edwin Gros, S.J., university ministry chaplain, expressed the opinion that the United FILE PHOTO BY KRISTY MAY Students protest at the School of Americas in Fort Benning, Ga., in 1999. The military training school changed its name to the Defense Institute for Hemispheric Security Cooperation. Loyola students will travel to this year's protest Nov. 17. Women's ordination group chartering By Jamie Doerr Staff writer At first, the idea of a woman in a collar might seem demeaning. Or it might seem a little kinky. But Christine Chase, music education junior, thinks women in collars — Roman collars — is exactly what the world needs. Chase co-founded a group called The Friends of Magdalene, which focuses on the potential role of women in the Roman Catholic Church, including ordination. 'This is a subject that is close to our hearts," Chase said. She hopes to be ordained a Catholic priest some day. "When you have a subject that is meaningful for you, you are called upon by your conscience, if nothing else, to stand up for it," she said. "For a subject so controversial as this, it's hard for someone to stand and do that alone." Chase, along with Kathreja Mills, criminal justice senior, and Seth Alexander, religious studies junior, started the group after several lengthy conversations and a suggestion that there should be a campus organization to address the issue. The debate has been going on in the Catholic Church for years, and not everyone at Loyola agrees with the philosophy of Friends of Magdalene. Against Tradition Brian Rohm, philosophy sophomore, said ordaining women would go against church authority and tradition. "It's a debatable argument that's not really up for debate," Rohm said. "It seems to be an equal rights kind of question. But it's about tradition, a question of being obedient," he said. In 1994, Pope John Paul II issued Ordinalio Sacerdotalis, an apostolic exhortation in which he said the Church has no authority to confer priestly ordination on women, a teaching drawn from scripture and the Church's 2000-year-old tradition. "The church has attempted, on the basis of scripture, to place the responsibility for that mandate into the mind of Jesus," said Brother Patrick Cousins, S.C., religious studies senior. "The teaching that women are not to be ordained has not been declared Debate ensues at SGA meeting By Crystal Bolner Staff writer The Student Government Association held a closed-door recess Tuesday to "collect its thoughts" before questioning the University Budget Committee about the proposed 8 percent tuition increase. Following the recess, ÜBC addressed SGA. The Rev. Bernard Knoth, S.J., university president, said the university is putting itself in a position to remain competitive in reference to other universities. "We're not trying to be at the top. We couldn't begin to afford that," he said. Loyola, in reference to faculty salaries, retention and class size, is in the middle range of 33 other universities it uses as a reference group. Luke Perez, representative at large and pre-med/psychology junior, asked Knoth why ÜBC did not seriously consider SGA's resolution to cap tuition increases to 2 percent above the Consumer Price Index. The resolution was passed in 1998. Knoth said SGA's resolutions did not directly affect him. He said he was looking at the bigger picture. "You could pass a resolution, but that doesn't necessarily affect me," Knoth said. "I don't do the big wave and make promises I don't intend to keep." Lauren Campisi, representative at large and economics and political science junior, said things SGA makes decisions on did directly affect him. "They do affect you. We are the reason you are here. We are the students. That is a huge problem, much bigger than what we are talking about now | the tuition increase|," Campisi said. Joseph Jones, SGA vice president and economics junior, said he did not believe congress complete what they set out to accomplish at the meeting. "I think they (congress) got a lot of information. But we will probably have to have another meeting — a straight question and answer meeting," Jones said. See SOA, Page 3 See CHURCH, Page 3 lUfSt EAT YOUR HEART OUT! Crystal Morrison wins Grand Diva of Loyola contest Loyola University Neiv Orleans

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THE MAROON VOL. 79, NO. 14 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2000 MAROON.LOYNO.EDU Students protest former SOA Mary Chauvin Staff writer Almost 40 Loyola students will spend next weekend protesting at the military training camp formerly known as School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Ga. The School of the Americas began in 1946 under the title of Latin American Training Center-Ground Division. It was located at Fort Amador in Panama. It later moved to Fort Gulick in Panama, changed its name to the U.S. Army Caribbean School and began teaching classes in Spanish rather than English. The name changed again in 1963 to the U.S. Army School of the Americas. In 1984. it moved to the U.S. and settled at Fort Benning, Ga. Opponents of the school often list the names and crimes of human rights violators affiliated with the school, such as two of the men affiliated with Archbishop Oscar Romero's assassination in 1980. The SOA also produced more than half of the 26 men involved with the murder of the six Jesuit priests and two women in El Salvador, who are commemorated by the Peace Quad. However, according to SOA's Web site, less than 1 percent of SOA graduates are linked to human rights violations and even fewer have been proven guilty of those violations. In 1990, the Rev. Roy Bourgeois, M.M.. a Maryknoll priest, began a group called the SOA Watch to fight for the closing of the SOA This group sponsors the annual November protest at the school. One of the biggest problems opponents have with the school centers on "torture manuals" used there. The Pentagon released seven school manuals in September 1996 after being pressured to do so by both religious and human rights groups. These manuals were composed in Spanish and later translated to English. They were used at the SOA as supplemental training materials until 1991. According to the School of the Americas Web site, the U.S. Army did not sanction these manuals. Instead, according to the site, a visiting Latin American instructor brought the manuals to the school because he mistakenly believed that the information conformed to the rules and regulations set by the Army. When they were publicly released. The New York Times reported, "Americans can read for themselves some of the noxious lessons the U.S. Army taught thousands of Americans." Two of the manuals are available to read and download on the SOA Watch Web site in English and three others are available in Spanish. The manuals mention interrogation techniques such as hypnotism and the use of drugs to get informants to tell the truth. Because of bad publicity focused on the school. Congress and the Department of Defense attempted to make changes. It passed a bill in May officially closing the U.S. Army School of Americas. However, that same bill opened a Latin American training school named the Defense Institute for Hemispheric Security Cooperation. This new school is located on the site of the old school at Fort Benning. Even proponents of the SOA have said that the name change is superficial and only designed to relieve some of the bad publicity the school has received for the past 10 years. Bourgeois was quoted as saying, "The SOA has a new name but the same shame. ...We will keep coming back |to Fort Benning for the November protests| until we shut down the 'School of the Assassins' — whatever they call it," The school also consented to allow a Board of Visitors to inspect it and make suggestions, mostly to the school's human rights program and instruction. So far, the board has not asked for any changes. However, The Rev. Edwin Gros, S.J., university ministry chaplain, expressed the opinion that the United FILE PHOTO BY KRISTY MAY Students protest at the School of Americas in Fort Benning, Ga., in 1999. The military training school changed its name to the Defense Institute for Hemispheric Security Cooperation. Loyola students will travel to this year's protest Nov. 17. Women's ordination group chartering By Jamie Doerr Staff writer At first, the idea of a woman in a collar might seem demeaning. Or it might seem a little kinky. But Christine Chase, music education junior, thinks women in collars — Roman collars — is exactly what the world needs. Chase co-founded a group called The Friends of Magdalene, which focuses on the potential role of women in the Roman Catholic Church, including ordination. 'This is a subject that is close to our hearts," Chase said. She hopes to be ordained a Catholic priest some day. "When you have a subject that is meaningful for you, you are called upon by your conscience, if nothing else, to stand up for it," she said. "For a subject so controversial as this, it's hard for someone to stand and do that alone." Chase, along with Kathreja Mills, criminal justice senior, and Seth Alexander, religious studies junior, started the group after several lengthy conversations and a suggestion that there should be a campus organization to address the issue. The debate has been going on in the Catholic Church for years, and not everyone at Loyola agrees with the philosophy of Friends of Magdalene. Against Tradition Brian Rohm, philosophy sophomore, said ordaining women would go against church authority and tradition. "It's a debatable argument that's not really up for debate," Rohm said. "It seems to be an equal rights kind of question. But it's about tradition, a question of being obedient," he said. In 1994, Pope John Paul II issued Ordinalio Sacerdotalis, an apostolic exhortation in which he said the Church has no authority to confer priestly ordination on women, a teaching drawn from scripture and the Church's 2000-year-old tradition. "The church has attempted, on the basis of scripture, to place the responsibility for that mandate into the mind of Jesus," said Brother Patrick Cousins, S.C., religious studies senior. "The teaching that women are not to be ordained has not been declared Debate ensues at SGA meeting By Crystal Bolner Staff writer The Student Government Association held a closed-door recess Tuesday to "collect its thoughts" before questioning the University Budget Committee about the proposed 8 percent tuition increase. Following the recess, ÜBC addressed SGA. The Rev. Bernard Knoth, S.J., university president, said the university is putting itself in a position to remain competitive in reference to other universities. "We're not trying to be at the top. We couldn't begin to afford that," he said. Loyola, in reference to faculty salaries, retention and class size, is in the middle range of 33 other universities it uses as a reference group. Luke Perez, representative at large and pre-med/psychology junior, asked Knoth why ÜBC did not seriously consider SGA's resolution to cap tuition increases to 2 percent above the Consumer Price Index. The resolution was passed in 1998. Knoth said SGA's resolutions did not directly affect him. He said he was looking at the bigger picture. "You could pass a resolution, but that doesn't necessarily affect me," Knoth said. "I don't do the big wave and make promises I don't intend to keep." Lauren Campisi, representative at large and economics and political science junior, said things SGA makes decisions on did directly affect him. "They do affect you. We are the reason you are here. We are the students. That is a huge problem, much bigger than what we are talking about now | the tuition increase|," Campisi said. Joseph Jones, SGA vice president and economics junior, said he did not believe congress complete what they set out to accomplish at the meeting. "I think they (congress) got a lot of information. But we will probably have to have another meeting — a straight question and answer meeting," Jones said. See SOA, Page 3 See CHURCH, Page 3 lUfSt EAT YOUR HEART OUT! Crystal Morrison wins Grand Diva of Loyola contest Loyola University Neiv Orleans